CaseDisk2017

North Sea (on oil rig), North Sea

Large, well lit up, unidentified craft at sea level rose and flew into night sky before disappearing.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-26
Where
North Sea (on oil rig), North Sea
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.933, -72.414 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-north-sea-on-oil-rig-2017-897662
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in North Sea (on oil rig), North Sea.
  • This case is one of 1 North Sea reports filed in 2017.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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